Seabra Foods Opened: unknown Owner: Antonio Seabra Previous Tenants: unknown Cooperative: none Location: 440 Stafford St, Fall River, MA Photographed: October 14, 2024 It's been quite a while since we've toured a Seabra Foods! The one here in Fall River is the last stop in town before we start heading east and north, after we've visited Portugalia and Amaral's (it goes without saying that there's a large Portuguese community here). The store is around 30,000 square feet and, while I'm not sure when it opened, was renovated around 2020. It also appears to have been expanded since it first opened, given a somewhat unusual layout. We enter and turn 90 degrees to the left to walk along the front of the store for the produce department. Seafood, meat, and deli/prepared foods line the left-side wall and grocery aisles run side to side, with dairy and frozen at the back. Bakery is in the back right corner, and in the expansion out the right side, several aisles ...
Vucciria Gourmet Italian Market of Brooklyn Opened: March 19, 2025 Owner: Silvestro LoVerde Previous Tenants: A&P > Foodtown > Shop n Bag > Garden Farm > Top Tomato Cooperative: none Location: 3105 US-9, Old Bridge, NJ Photographed: March 23, 2025 Old Bridge, NJ is a large town in the middle of the state, just south of New Brunswick and not quite at the Jersey Shore but a bit inland from the northern part of the shore. And it (and neighboring towns) have an enormous number of supermarkets. Old Bridge itself has a new ShopRite , an ACME , a new Seabra's Market , and an ALDI , and obviously the ShopRite is the heavy hitter there. But the surrounding area has any number of other supermarkets, ranging from international stores to discount stores to full supermarkets. It's a competitive market, and newcomers sometimes struggle. In fact, the space that is now Seabra's was previously a SuperFresh for just a couple months from June to October...